Please note: Our dispensaries will be closed from 12 noon when there is an Education & Training Shutdown.

OUT-OF-HOURS If you require urgent medical assistance, which is not life threatening but cannot wait until the surgery re-opens, please dial 111. Calls to the NHS111 service are free from both landlines and mobiles. For a life threatening medical emergency dial 999.

PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP We need some volunteers to join our Patient Participation Group to help us to ensure that we are providing the services you need from us. We would like to be able to contact patients to ask them questions about the surgery. If you can spare a little time please complete the form below or ask for one from reception.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Dita Fridrichova has joined the practice covering Dr Lindford's maternity leave.

We are pleased to announce that we now have two registrars, two physiotherapists and two paramedic practitioners working with us at the practice

Dr Arham Munawar (f) - new GP Registrar and will be with the surgery until August 2020.

Dr Gohar Saeed (f) - Our GP Registrar and will be with the surgery for the eighteen months until February 2021

Paramedic - Vicky Bryning - is working with us doing home visits.

Paramedic Practitioners - Abigail Merrell & David Binns are now working with the surgery doing home visits and supporting the doctors with frailty clinics

Doctors

Dr Jenni Lindford (f)

MBBS MRCS MRCGP DFSRH

Dr Lindford trained at St George's Hospital, London and qualified in 2000. She joined the practice in July 2009 having previously been a partner in Suffolk. She has special interests in minor surgery and women's health and is the lead doctor for COPD. She has two young children and lives locally.

Dr Hilary Binns

Dr Akbar Choudhry (m)

MBBS BSc MRCGP

Dr Choudhry joined the practice in August 2015, having completed his GP training in Cambridge. He attended King's College London where he also completed an Intercalated BSc in Pharmacology. His clinical interests include Diabetes. Away from work he is a keen follower of cricket and football, particularly the fortunes of Manchester United.

Dr Sarah Machale (f)

Dr Machale joined the practice in 2015 when it merged. She qualified in 1994 from Oxford and then worked in a number of hospital specialties including Renal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Breast Surgery, Oncology, Care of the Elderly, Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Since qualifying as a GP she has also completed further specialist training in Family Planning, Diabetes and Occupational Medicine. She has trained GP’s and medical students. Dr Machale is local having grown up in Clavering and now has twins and a crazy black labrador to keep her busy which is why she works two days a week- Monday and Friday. She is also volunteer with Uttlesford Citizens Advice Bureau.

Health Practitioners

Abigail - Paramedic Practitioner (f)

David-Paramedic Practitioner (m)

Healthcare Assistants

Our Healthcare assistant carries out procedures such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement, ECGs, flu vaccinations and some other injections. She is also involved in weight management one-to-one sessions. She may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Glenna Adams (f)

Karen Wilkinson (f)

Jennie Gould (f)

Robyn Rash (f)

Practice Management

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Mrs Jan Law (f)

Practice Manager

Mrs Ann Sisson (f)

HR & Admin Manager

Mrs Samantha Organ (f)

Finance Manager

Reception

Elaine (f)

Sue (f)

Joy (f)

Alison (f)

Susie (f)

Karen

Sharon (f)

Jane

Angela

Jan

Our receptionists provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make most of the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as issuing repeat prescriptions.

Christine

Jayne

Helen

Lynda

Wendy

Kate

Kelli

Secretaries

Our secretaries deal with all referrals, appointments with consultants and other clinical letters and can help you with any enquiries relating to these.

Helen

Jo

Derry

Community Midwives

Community Nurses

Health Visitors

A health visitor is a registered nurse who has received training particularly related to babies, children and pregnant women. Their role is to provide families with children under five years old with support and advice around the general aspects of mental, physical and social wellbeing.